Message with Indian language symbol can crash iPhones

For users running the public beta of iOS 11.3, their iPhones, iPads or iPod touches won't be affected by this bug.

News of the bug emerged after reports in Italian blog Mobile World and has since been widely replicated, with numerous confirmations posted online.

These features were expected in the already releasediOS 11 update but were reportedly delayed because Apple wanted to upgrade its own process of developing apps and the way they are introduced to the world.

If someone else were to send the character as a text, the notification snippet containing the character could also freeze or restart the entire iOS springboard by itself (the springboard is the system application that runs the home screen of iOS devices). The character interestingly doesn't crash all apps, however. This means that the bug is not limited to iOS Messages app.

As Engadget lays out, the issue is simply that apps can't figure out how to load the character, which overwhelms them and forces them to shut down.

The extremely bad thing about the glitch is it can apparently infect third-party messaging and social networking services too.